SasuSai: Castle In The Night

Chapter 1: Freedom?

A/N: This is a more serious tone then i have taken in the past- kinda... scary to me o3o. although i do like these kinds of things every once in a while... =_= . It is Yaoi, if you no like- why are you even here?

Short breaths came quickly for the male. It was midnight, the sun having long gone down under the horizon. Only slight breezes brushed through the black hair that flopped around his head as he ran. It was more of a frantic running, on that could only be triggered through fear or hope. Hope for the taste of freedom and fear for those who would catch him. He had left the place where he had been held, although it was more a 'job' then anything else.

A bridge appeared before the male, he only spotting it from the pure white color it seemed to be glowing. He leaned against it, the breaths from his body coming heavily. Slight fear once more shook through his body as the shook through as the barking of dogs was once again heard through the silent night. His eyes slightly blurry through the lack of food that he had eaten beforehand to save up for the trip. Rubbing his eyes, he took a deep breath before once again running. This time he would be able to get away, this being his first try that he had gotten past the walls of the castle- so this time he had hope. Although hope was a thing that changed one's look on things to the extreme sometimes, and others paralyzed one's thought process to a point of only living on it.

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A horse's hoof prints clacked through the forest trees, it's carrier bringing a dark mood over the small search party. Cursing under his breath at the dark moon, the male jumped off the horse- it traveling to slow for the male's taste. "Goddamn it Shikamaru," he cursed at his main advisor, "What the hell has gotten into him!" it was more of a statement then a question, the male unsheathed his short sword- a gift he had received from his older brother the night his parents had been killed. It had jewels in the handle, giving it a higher rank of authority then it must have been at the time.

The advisor grumbled under his breath and sighed outwardly, "Sire, this is pointless. He will be found in the morning- when the villagers are alerted of his presence they will most certainly hand him over quickly enough. He was sacrificed by them, although he shouldn't know it yet." He sighed and ride his horse close enough to the other's to grab the reins, "Has it been too stressful for you to remember these kinds of things? He was just a present, a toy. Who would have thought that the toy would have a soul?"

The male grumbled at the other under his breath, starting to hack away at the undergrowth that lined the forest flooring. "You've never even met him," he paused his tactics to look at Shikamaru, "Have you?"

"Only three times I do believe," he replied, brushing away the leaves that had fallen unto his horse saddle, "and those times I didn't learn much about him- he didn't talk."

He nodded, suddenly stopping his hacking. A small smirk on his face, he turned to look at the other, "And I know exactly where he will be going. Come; let us sleep for the night."

Another sigh from the assistant before the two took off back to the castle. It was a rather large castle, one that was originally build a mile away from the lake that was now mere meters away from tipping the large structure into the abyss that seemed to go to such a depth that the loch ness monster himself could be living down there.

"Fetch my servants," the male said, shrugging off the coat that he was wearing onto the ground. He took off his shoes and walked through the household in his socks, it obviously being a sign of disrespect in this day and age. But he was the kind of male that didn't give shit about what the people around him thought as long as he was able to get what he wanted out of the situation.

"Sasuke-kun?" a soft voice questioned from the back of the room, "You called?"

"Yes I did," the male said, walking quickly to the place where the soft voice came from to lean slightly over the long haired female, "Do you know anything about Sai going missing?" He pulled the female out of the shadows, the male had never really liked the way that there was more shadows then nice light places in his house. More like a castle. He had meant to get it fixed, although that would mean more candles and more probable fire hazards- at least that's what his advisor said.

The servant was incredibly shy, one of the bad things that he had never liked about this particular one. Even though she was better than the one with bright pink hair- wasn't natural, or the other one with blond hair who practically jumped at the chance to get into whatever kind of fight whenever. "N-no of course not," she said, bending her head downwards so not to dishonor the name of her master, "He didn't talk to me."

"I see," Sasuke muttered to himself before turning back to the female, "Send up some supper, start a hot bath, and send Neji up to my room. I need to relax some, this whole thing with Sai is getting on my nerves." With that he left the female, without a second glance. The servants knew what would happen if they didn't obey orders.

He walked up the staircase slowly, watching as a couple of servants quickly ascended the stairs on their own work or one of his orders. He had always liked being in control of these kinds of things, feeling power within his grasp was a kind of thing that had him enjoy himself more than plenty of other things. Such as minor tasks like town meetings, court sessions, and anything else concerning the outside world. Once he got to his room, he discarded the mud drenched clothes onto the floor- not liking the thought of carrying around dirt just because of his clothes. There were a couple of servants waiting for him in his personal bathing chamber, Sasuke having been in the lap of luxury since he was a small child.

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The sharp breaths slowly calmed down as the male came to rest his head on the small pile of hay that he had made his bed of in an abandoned farm building. At least thought abandoned farm buildings. A set off footsteps told otherwise, although the male had no energy to move from the collapsed position in said hay.

There was a gasp and the footsteps retreated, only to come back with two other sets. 'Great,' the male thought, his body finally falling asleep from the over use of his muscles, 'I'm going to die here.'

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"Neji," the male said, standing in steam still from his longer than expected bath, "what are you doing?" The brunette was sitting on the edge of the bed when the raven came in, not prepared for the male to come in so suddenly.

"I-" the brunette started, only to be silenced by a flick of the other's hand. The raven approached him slowly, watching his reactions as the space between them closed. The only physical reaction was the male's eyes widening slightly at how forward the other was being, he didn't even bother backing up a few paces to create space. He was trained enough now through punishment that it wouldn't do anything to resist unless ordered to.

The male smiled, brushing back his raven hair over his face before returning his gaze to the brunette. "You have become more beautiful than the others. And as one said 'beauty is a curse.'" He smiled once again at the almost emotionless face before him before walking forwards and taking the others arm into his hand. No struggle, much less then Sasuke was used to anyway with Sai. "Of course that was only in one person's opinion," he continued, forcing the males chin upwards towards his own, "What do you think, Hyuga?"